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NES

2A03 technical reference First release (4-23-2004), by Brad Taylor. Covers everything related to the NES's CPU, including sound. The linear counter section needs to be written, if anyone experienced with this is interested in documenting it, please post on the forum.

Famicom Disk System

Famicom Disk System Loader by Brad Taylor. This is the software and documentation for a hardware project to emulate the FDS's disk drive using a PC disk drive via parallel port. Can also copy FDS disk contents to your PC.

6502 SDK Quoted from the docs: The kit is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) similar to Borland ones, which allows you to edit, compile and (hopefully) debug your Assembly code for 65xx processors. It includes a (still rudimental) emulator and a project manager for multiple file applications. Requires Win3.11 or higher. Here's the source code.

Misc.

Game Genie Code Coverter v4.0 by Zazer. Create new, or decode existing Game Genie codes for NES and all other GG-platforms.

Roller Coaster by Pan/ATX. This program can generate various sine and non-repeating random data tables to use in your games/demos.

Famicom Disk System Loader by Brad Taylor. This is the software and documentation for a hardware project to emulate the FDS's disk drive using a PC disk drive via parallel port. Can also copy FDS disk contents to your PC.

NED2NSF v1.0 by Matrixz. Windows program that can make a single-song NSF from a NED file (Nerdtracker 2 format). Does not support NEDs with DMC samples, currently.

MIDIMML converter v1.0 by Tom Murphy 7. [link] This program converts MIDI files (with some special annotations) into MML. The output wouldn't be as optimal as hand-crafted MML (in most cases), but it's very interesting and even useful for MIDI users, nonetheless.

NES Hardware Projects

PC NES transfer cable by sepi. Connects a PC's parallel port to the NES control port. It allows you control a game with a PC keyboard to log and play back button presses.

Famicom Disk System Loader by Brad Taylor. This is the software and documentation for a hardware project to emulate the FDS's disk drive using a PC disk drive via parallel port. Can also copy FDS disk contents to your PC.

CopyNES by Kevin Horton. NES modification that allows reading and writing of cartridges.

ENIO by Pete Brown. Goal is to give the NES ethernet access to a game server over the Internet.

Skate or Die 2 (title theme) Recorded by Memblers, through the audio output of an NES. This Rob Hubbard tune uses raw PCM output ($4011) that few (if any) emulators play correctly.

Comic Bakery Recorded by Chris Covell. This is an MP3 of how this cover of a Martin Galway song plays on a real NES (The one in the Stars SE demo). It doesn't sound too good, due to some scarcely documented um.. features of the NES's sound hardware. Since it does a great job of highlighting these features, it may be be useful for emulator authors who want to improve their sound emulation accuracy. This MP3 is in stereo, the square waves are in the left channel, the triangle is in the right one. The noise channel isn't used. If you're wondering, these features were compensated for in Bananmos's newest sound code (as used in Solar Wars), and it is now 100% cool on real NES. =)